Create an Interactive Homepage Marquee with jQuery and Dreamweaver with Chris Converse

MOV + Exercise Files | Duration: 1h 34min | 960x600 | Video: 30 fps 829 kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96 kbps 1 mono | 317 MB

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English | Released: May 26, 2011

Discover how to build a visually rich, interactive marquee in order to aggregate and display content on a web site homepage. Author Chris Converse shows how to prepare the artwork in Photoshop and Illustrator, create HTML and CSS layouts, and dynamically generate marquee elements with the open-source JavaScript framework jQuery. Tutorials on animating between content panels are also included.

Topics include:

• Linking the HTML and CSS layouts

• Preparing images with the Slice tool and Smart Objects

• Adding CSS rules for the captions and navigation

• Producing the photo lineup

• Creating the navigation links based on the HTML

• Setting click events for the navigation

• Animating between photos

• Initializing the gallery on page load